Wisdom overcomes fortune.
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
Who is to guard the guards themselves?
One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]
Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears.